Fresh thinking for food and beverage
For many years, the Food and Beverage industry has had to strike a balance between the requirements of government regulations and cost pressures with customer experience and product quality. All while navigating a market of fluctuating inflation and supply uncertainty.
From early-stage pre-development and feasibility activity, identifying alternative raw materials, driving out waste, and improving operational efficiency. Proxima has helped leading names in the industry to commercially navigate their supplier partnerships and achieve best in class results.
Learning how to act in times of opportunity and bolster in times of challenge across your supply chain is a real skill. The need for this is heightened by evolving consumer trends and innovative technology solutions. Procurement may just be the key ingredient.
Procurement solutions tailored to your challenges
We are practitioner-led. Our people bring real-world industry experience and adopt a hands-on approach to both the challenges and opportunities within Food and Beverage. Prevalent in the market, with leading brands trusting Proxima as their procurement partner, we bring fresh, relevant, actionable insight from across the industry and beyond.
The industry is seeing shifts in consumer behaviour that look set to stay; whether it be reduced liquor consumption, increased plant-based alternatives, or the switch to planet-friendly goods. With this comes the need for organisations to adapt and evolve.
Key questions are shaping future strategies in the industry:
- What does the continued focus on AI-driven supply chain management mean for your organisation?
- What are the implications of switching to more sustainable packaging?
- What level of supply chain visibility do you have today versus full traceability?
We help organisations by:
- Mapping key supply chains and understanding risks and opportunities.
- Leveraging our extensive knowledge and experience in direct and indirect procurement.
- Identifying and executing cost-out programmes to optimise spend.
- Incorporating ESG into strategy and balancing with cost initiatives.
With constant shifts in consumer behaviour, value chain dynamics, and regulation, Procurement becomes a critical role in ensuring businesses not only survive in the Food and Beverage landscape but also thrive.
What we do
Each business will face its own unique challenges; contact our experts today, to find out how we can help you. Our service suite is wide-ranging, and we offer both defined products and bespoke services. Broadly, our services sit into four pillars:
Cost Transformation
Enabling ‘value’ for money, typically thought through sourcing and strategy work and supporting the delivery of complex programmes.
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Cost Transformation
With an average of 70% of a company’s revenues being spent with external suppliers, Cost Optimisation Services ensure best value is known, achieved, and maintained.
Capability Transformation
Leading, transforming or developing functions and teams, including their people, processes and technology.
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Capability Transformation
Building the right procurement model is not a one size fits all. Capability Transformation Services help organisations to build fresh or upgrade existing procurement models to boost impact.
Sustainability
Delivering social value, decarbonisation and sustainable procurement programmes.
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Sustainable Procurement
With supply chains key to achieving sustainability goals, Sustainable Procurement Services support CPOs and their teams to consistently plan and achieve greater environmental and social impact.
Specialist Support
Targeted capability and programme support
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Specialist Support
When business have specific projects or complex programmes to execute, Specialist Support Services bring expertise on demand to cover capacity and capability needs.
“Proxima set up and ran a true global indirect sourcing function for CSM. Over five years Proxima ran several cost reduction cycles, developed integrated stakeholder planning, tracked and reported category sourcing benefits and implemented a commodity price risk management strategy. Overall the partnership was extremely value adding delivering multiple times the return on investment.”
Brian Chambers | CPO
CSM Bakery Solutions
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